That may seem like quite a lot for a little under a week, but really, the shootings we hear about are a fraction of the ones that happen.

According to data compiled by Slate, there were 11,422 gun-related deaths in 2013. That’s over 31 a day. This data includes anything gun-related including accidents. At a minimum, 1,108 of these were homicides, which is just over 3 a day.

What do we do about that? The big problems here don’t have any easy solutions (and no, taking all the guns away is not an easy solution), but there are some low hanging fruit. Universal background checks and a ban on high capacity magazines for starters. Measures that address poverty and gang violence would also eat away at gun violence in the U.S. From there, it would be worthwhile studying other developed countries with much lower gun-death rates than us.

Gun violence is not the U.S.’s only problem or even its biggest problem, but it is obviously a problem. Just acknowledging that would be a good first step, and more than some have been willing to do.